Ecuador — Fishery/Seafood Products

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Ecuador received 43 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 8 in 2024-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are salmonella, filthy, and needs fce. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Ecuador, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

Of these, 36 were hazard refusals and 7 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

4 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 4 2 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 2 8 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 8 1 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 1 6 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 6 2 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 2 4 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 4 2 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 2 1 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 1 2 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 2 7 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 7 4 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 4

By commodity, last 156 weeks

Commodity Rejections Per $1B US imports Most-cited hazard
Fish-Other 26 filthy
Shrimp-Prawn 15 salmonella
Tuna 2 no process

Recent rejections